Word: edisonizing
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...basic needs to help people out of misery and poverty: water and electricity. So what if you could make point of use water with a little machine, instead of [depending on] municipalities? What if you could make point of use electricity, instead of waiting for the equivalent of Con Edison to build a massive infrastructure and transmission lines? Let's build technologies that scale down to deliver point of use water, point of use power, that don't have to get more granular than the village...
...years, Yeo has been roaming the world, trailing talented scientists in Washington; San Diego; Palo Alto, Calif.; Edinburgh and elsewhere, and spiriting them back to his home country of Singapore. Like any proud collector, Yeo never tires of ticking off his most prized trophies: former National Cancer Institute star Edison Liu, American husband-and-wife team Nancy Jenkins and Neal Copeland, British cancer researcher David Lane. "I'm a people snatcher," he says unashamedly...
...know Theodore Roosevelt well from photographs--that round, fully fleshed face, that swelling neck, those teeth. How many people know that we have a record of his voice as well? During his 1912 presidential campaign, Roosevelt was recorded several times on Thomas Edison's wax-cylinder technology. His voice, it turns out, is not quite what you would expect from his pugnacious appearance. The tone is patrician, cultivated, almost professorial. It has accents not so different from the ones you hear in the voice of that other Roosevelt, Franklin. Old money courses through every syllable...
...ends in just five weeks. In an interview yesterday, Summers said, the new school would be the first new school at Harvard in three and a half decades. “As I like to say, great scientific achievement is about Einstein, but it’s also about Edison,” Summers said. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...seem to come from a much earlier decade: the '20s, perhaps, since they are silent films, in black-and-white. But not the '20s of Hollywood features, with their pearly visual sophisticated and the actors' elegant miming. Really, Bettie's films have the feel of the first Edison documentaries, when the camera recorded ordinary events with ethnographic avidity. In most of the extant Klaw movies, all Bettie does is dance...